SF Police Face Tense Day In The Tenderloin
SAN FRANCISCO: Tenderloin Scene Of Fatal Officer-Involved Shooting, Standoff
Updated on: 2010-09-26 08:58:08
The San Francisco Police officers in the Tenderloin had their hands full Sunday, having to handle two tense situations within blocks of each other, one of which was fatal.
First off, a man barricaded himself in his Tenderloin apartment Sunday afternoon, forcing responding officers to close nearby streets and begin negotiating with him to open up his apartment..
Officers and crisis negotiators responded to the 1400 block of Franklin St. where a man refused to leave an apartment building, San Francisco police Officer Chan said.
The standoff began when a tenant apparently forced his way into a neighbor's apartment. Frank Garcia said he heard yelling on the floor above him at about 7:45 a.m. Sunday
"Drove a piece of concrete through her door and then unlocked the door and went in," said Garcia. "And she sort of scared him somehow, got him to get out, made the 911 call, locked the door again, and that's about the time I showed up and one of the other neighbors showed up."
Garcia said the man mumbled something about secret service agents, and then went into his apartment and locked the door.
Officers closed off Franklin St. for several hours while the negotiations commenced.
Just a few blocks away, officers answered a noise complaint just a few blocks away, at the Granada Residence hotel at 1000 Sutter St., where the situation turned deadly.
Officers responded to a noise complaint in an apartment building in the 1000 block of Sutter Street at around 11:10 a.m., Sgt. Troy Dangerfield said.
Officers had received reports of an intense verbal argument and of someone - possibly a tenant - throwing stereo speakers out the window of a seventh floor apartment, Dangerfield said.
Police went to the apartment with the building's manager to make contact with the involved parties.
At some point during the investigation, an occupant of the apartment pulled out a weapon and the investigating officer fired his gun, fatally wounding the suspect.
"It sounded definitely like rapid fire, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, something like that," said neighbor Barry White.
Police had yet to identify the victim Sunday, but several neighbors said his name was Michael Lee and he was in his forties.
It was not known what weapon the suspect was holding that prompted the officer to shoot, and police did not say how many rounds were fired.
The shooting was being investigated by the police department's internal affairs department, the homicide unit and the San Francisco district attorney's office.
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Víctor Lei
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